Friday, November 14, 2014

Why is America's Internet So Slow?

What
do Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Romania. Lithuania, Sweden,
Switzerland, Netherlands, Iceland & Denmark all have in common?

They
all have faster internet than the good ol' U.S.A. - that's right
faster than America's internet despite the fact that the U.S.A. had
it first and invented it!

So, why
is America's Internet so slow? It is because our Government has
allowed a few giant conglomerates to rig the rules, raise prices and
kill competition!

What
has happened and what most people don't realize is that these big
telecommunications companies such as, Comcast and Time Warner who
control
the wired, and AT&T, along with Verizon who control the wireless,
have divided up the markets for themselves
in a 'gentleman's agreement' type of arrangement and they have put
themselves in a position where there
is
no competition and no oversight from any regulatory authority, and in
this manner they are able to over-charge us for second-class Internet
access and Americans are unable to do anything about it.

If
that was not bad enough, it may still get even
worse, because these same conglomerates want to abolish net
neutrality and set tiered prices for bandwidth and if they don't get
their way, their projected profit loss would exceed the expense of
upgrading the infrastructure... and therefore such upgrades just
won't happen (a veiled threat). They figured a way to beat the laws
of monopolization and have been gouging customers with inferior
technology! Now they want to put prices on bandwidth and allow some
big companies to buy more. In the end customers would have less
bandwidth and their internet will become even slower than it already
is.

Americans
are stuck with old fashioned technology and few options. And these
big companies threaten us, they lie and say they'll make it possible
for you to have faster streaming by allowing companies like Google
and Amazon to buy more bandwidth, giving them priority access they'll
deliver faster downloads and streaming. That's all a pack of lies and
bullshit! The average customer will soon be faced with, out of
control priced internet speed packages and will find their internet
gets even slower.

“In
Hong Kong right now you can get a 500 megabit symmetric connection
that’s unimaginably fast from our standpoint for about 25 bucks a
month. In Seoul, for $30 you get three choices of different providers
of fiber in your apartment. And they come in and install in a day
because competition’s so fierce. In New York City there’s only
one choice, and it’s 200 bucks a month for a similar service. And
you can’t get that kind of fiber connection outside of New York
City in many parts of the country.” - Susan Crawford

These
companies are out of control and it's time to do something about it!

If you want to find out more, I recommend that you buy this very good and informative book, "Captive Audience" by Susan Crawford